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Poetry slams

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The rhetoric of slam poetry and its potential in the college writing classroom, 2015

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Identifier: b7667382
Introduction [excerpt] To ... begin this thesis, I will situate slam poetry in relation to composition and rhetoric scholarship, by investigating and ultimately questioning the tendency to reject the use of literary or fictional texts in first year writing courses. I will address why compositionists tend to prefer using overtly politically or socially conscious nonfiction articles in order to teach academic writing and suggest that slam poetry might provide a highly effective alternative or additonal focus for...
Dates: 2015